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Mexico volunteering. Affordable volunteer programs in Mexico: Oct 28, 2007 5:54pm (1 review) travel http://www.travel-to-teach.org/mexico/xa...; Mexico volunteering. Affordable volunteer programs in Mexico; Delete this site from your blog? or Delete review only

EBay reorganizes its Skype division - U.S. Business - MSNBC.com: Oct 28, 2007 11:45am (2 reviews) communication, contemporary-history http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21358556/; I wonder if Skype was ever really private. Anyway...this is an interesting article that gave me food for thought...Skype is making millions, usage has increase in 12 months by nearly 100% yet somehow it is loosing money for eBay Inc? I don't get it. But I do get that all communication is recorded/monitored. Yep. Check out the article and good luck with making heads and tails out of it.; Delete this site from your blog? or Delete review only

Oct 16, 2007 6:30am: An excerpt from my MySpace blog...
Ecovision. I thought it worth sharing. Enjoy.

Relationships and Spiritual Life

by Jorge Waxemberg

Spiritual life is essentially based on love, and our love depends on the character and level of our relationships. Relationships are the great fabric of life; to unfold them consciously and methodically is to learn to love through a work that includes all of life. It is to transform living into an art. Spiritual life and the art of living are, therefore, two ways of referring to the same thing.

Nevertheless, the term "spiritual life" is generally associated with a belief rather than with the task of living. When we refer to spiritual life, we need to remember that no one's life is autonomous or isolated. We live in relationship, not only with other persons and our immediate surroundings but with the world, with time and with the mystery of not knowing who we are, where we came from and where we are going. Most especially we need to remember that we live in relationship with the fundamental principle of the Universe, that which we call God or the Divine.

When we say that we want to be happy, that we yearn for fulfillment, we are actually expressing the human need to unveil the mystery of the Divine. We know that explanations of life and the world are not enough. We find real fulfillment and happiness only when the Divine becomes part of our self-awareness.

This realization is traditionally called "union with God." But the traditional definition does not include the fact that we are united with all of reality; we live in a great web of relationships that includes everything. If we were to think of the unfolding of the soul as a process that takes place only between the individual and the Divine, we would separate the human being from reality. Our relationship with others and with the world is not simply an arena where our spiritual transformation takes place. On the contrary, spiritual unfolding becomes possible when it is based on the harmonization of the relationship that we have with all human beings and with all aspects of life.

That is why the idea of relationship is so important to our spiritual realization. The human being is inseparable from the universe: we are and we live in relationships. Yet our relationship with the world is for the most part unknown to us; we are aware of only some of our relationships, especially those which we voluntarily choose.

We live in an environment that is as reduced or as ample as our consciousness. Our attitude, health, moods and the circumstances of the moment influence us, and the subjective dimension of our situation changes continually. Thus we may sometimes wish to relate with all human beings - our realm is the universe - while other times we do not want to have a relationship with anyone or anything - our realm is ourselves.

But we live in relationship whether we want to or not, whether we realize it or not. Nothing exists apart from us; everything exists along with us - it includes us. For a better society to be possible, we all need to learn to live together in harmonious relationships.

It would be good for those of us who yearn for a better society to look first at our own relationships and to put aside the belief that our originality and authenticity as individuals are expressed in an isolated, fixed or abstract way. This will help us perceive our individuality by the way we relate with the circumstances which actually include and shape who we are.

The spiritual tradition teaches the basic foundations of human relationships: not to kill others, cause others harm, humiliate others, or jeopardize their welfare. That is, we need to control ourselves enough not to cause injury. It also teaches practices that help us accept our neighbor: tolerance, patience, gentleness, compassion. Although these precepts show us the beginning of [...] (no more space allowed here, see post at MySpace); Delete this blog entry?